Contributors

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Abbreviations vii
4. Chapter 1 The Concept of ‘Normalisation’ and the GDR in Comparative Perspective 1
5. PART I NORMALISATION AS STABILISATION AND ROUTINISATION? SYSTEMIC PARAMETERS AND THE ROLES OF FUNCTIONARIES
6. Chapter 2 ‘Aggression in Felt Slippers’: Normalisation and the Ideological Struggle in the Context of Détente and Ostpolitik 33
7. Chapter 3 Economic Politics and Company Culture: The Problem of Routinisation 52
8. Chapter 4 Rural Functionaries and the Transmission of Agricultural Policy: The Case of Bezirk Erfurt from the 1960s to the 1970s 76
9. Chapter 5 The ‘Societalisation’ of the State: Sport for the Masses and Popular Music in the GDR 102
10. Chapter 6 Communication and Compromise: The Prerequisites for Cultural Participation 130
11. Chapter 7 Learning the Rules: Local Activists and the Heimat 151
12. PART II NORMALISATION AS INTERNALISATION? CONFORMITY, ‘NORMALITY’, AND ‘PLAYING THE RULES’
13. Chapter 8 Practices of Survival— Ways of Appropriating ‘The Rules’: Reconsidering Approaches to the History of the GDR 181
14. Chapter 9 The GDR—A Normal Country in the Centre of Europe 194
15. Chapter 10 How Do the 1929ers and the 1949ers Differ? 204
16. Chapter 11 Producing the ‘Socialist Personality’? Socialisation, Education, and the Emergence of New Patterns of Behaviour 220
17. Chapter 12 1977: The GDR’s Most Normal Year? 253
18. Chapter 13 ‘Normalisation’ in the GDR in Retrospect: East German Perspectives on Their Own Lives 278
19. Contributors 321
20. Select Bibliography 325
21. Index 335